Three people in the cab of truck: Alexei the driver, his partner Nikolai, and Marina, a prostitute they picked up on their way. Or so it seems... In fact, all three are police detectives. Their task: to uncover a gang that has been robbing long-haul trucks.
Acting
Panin and Porechenkov's simmering toxic masculinity in tight quarters.
Direction
Proshkin traps you in that cab until you can't breathe.
Director
Aleksandr Proshkin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Post-Soviet Russian cinema of the early 2000s obsessed with masculinity in crisis — this is a cramped, sweaty case study.
Andrei Panin, who plays the volatile Nikolai, was one of Russia's most celebrated actors before his mysterious death in 2013 — his on-screen unpredictability here feels differently knowing that.
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